Politico -- Vice President Joe Biden will try to restart the dormant gun control push next week with an event to tout the administration’s progress in combatting gun violence.
The June 18 White House event will mark the first time Biden or President Barack Obama has held a public event on gun control since the Senate rejected expanded background checks for gun purchases April 17.
Despite Obama’s saying “this effort is not over” after the Senate defeated expanded background checks, the White House has since done little to push its gun control proposals.
The event comes, according to an invitation shared with POLITICO, as “the Administration continues to implement President Obama’s plan to protect our children and communities by reducing gun violence.”
A Biden aide confirmed a gun control event has been scheduled but declined to discuss what will take place. The White House declined to comment.
Obama won’t be in attendance. He will be at the G-8 summit in Northern Ireland, one of two overseas trips he’s making this month.
Blog author's comments - I knew they wouldn't let it go. They are gearing up for another assault. Perhaps they think the legislators will get tired of dealing with it coming up again and eventually pass something just to take it off the table. It's a wearing down process. If Obama could rewrite the Second Amendment he would.
Obama has told Biden to ask the liberal mainstream media to push gun control again. He also wants Biden to twist the arms of the Senate Democrats who voted against this bill the first time. But many ot those Senators are still worried about being reelected in 2014. Obama is sending out Biden to do it. Be concerned when Harry Reid starts devoting Senate time to gun control.
I would feel a bit better about both gun control and immigration reform if I thought I could trust the GOP Speaker of the House John Boehner to push back on these issues and stop them in the House. He has been known to cave easily in the past. What the government should do is leave the law-abiding gun owners alone and go after the criminals and gangs who are using illegal guns to do their crimes and shootings. More gun control laws will not put an end to mass shootings.
At present there is a new form of gun control, since we are now subjected to ammo control through lack of supply courtesy of the Department of Homeland Security buying millions of bullets. This most certainly was according to plan by the Obama administration. Neverr expect Obama to forget about gun control. He will continue to focus on it until he leaves office.
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